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Posted on September 11, 1914, this card is published by Valentine & Sons (#111,635). It is a little unusual for them - as it is obviously simply a promotional card for this business - Parker's Dye Works Limited - Cleaners & Dryers. (Obviously good enough for a Duke!) While the subject of the image is obvious, it is rare for a Valentine card not to have a separate Title on the face of the card.

Posted from Oshawa to Miami, Manitoba in April 1906, the message on the reverse reflects the popularity of postcard collecting & how folks established exchange partners in different locales. In this instance Hallie L. Stevenson in Oshawa sent this card to Hubert H. Storey in Miami with the message; "Per post card-exchange Montreal "Family Herald and Weekly Star". I am speculating that Mr. Storey placed an avertisement/notice in the Herald/Star inviting people to join in a postcard exchange with him. This notion is strengthened by Ms, Stevenson's curt message and the fact that her mailing address accompanies her signature. (Uncommon for postcard messages.)

Unposted, this is one of my favourite postcard scenes. Published by Rumsey & Co. Ltd.

Unposted card by Valentine & Sons (#103,003). I wish more postcards had been "people shots" like this one.

Posted March 5, 1911 from Toronto to England. (I was seeking this card for a few years before I found one for sale.) As the Writer says on the reverse; "These are some sporting men of Canada. No doubt you have heard of some of them - especially the Running Man in the front of the car. They were out for a spin." Front row, beside the driver, is the "Running Man", Tom Longboat. Longboat is probably Canada's most famous long-distance runner. Early in his career, in 1907 he stunned the world by winning the Boston Marathon - shaving over 5 minutes off the previous record time. A First Nations man from a reserve just south of Brantford, Tom was a member of the Onondaga Nation. In the back row, left to right are; Ned Hanlan - the greatest rower of his time, Eddie Durnam and Lou Scholes - outstanding scullers of the day.

Unused postcard featuring this great "action shot" of these women in a footrace with full-length dresses & skirts. Published by C. F. Taylor, Port Stanley, Ontario. #4761

Unposted, this is one in a set of 5 postcards from "Larder City: New Ontario", now Larder Lake, ON. The only card dated was July, 1907. (The uncommon Aristo stamp box on these cards is known to have been in use between 1906 and 1913.) Is this possibly the unidentified photographer of all the other images?

Unposted, this is one in a set of 5 postcards from "Larder City: New Ontario", now Larder Lake, ON. The only card dated was July, 1907. (The uncommon Aristo stamp box on these cards is known to have been in use between 1906 and 1913.) First Nations woman & child.

Unposted, this is one in a set of 5 postcards from "Larder City: New Ontario", now Larder Lake, ON. The only card dated was July, 1907. (The uncommon Aristo stamp box on these cards is known to have been in use between 1906 and 1913.) Six men at the entrance to the Collingwood Hotel.